ACORN

[--Pete]

Hi,

But I don't get the whole registering thing. I remember that in the US you need to register before being allowed to vote (which I always heard was a reason why many poor and uneducated people didn't bother), but does this cost money?

Nope. Pretty much all you need to do is go to any voter registration place (in a lot of states, that includes driver's license offices), show some ID (varies from place to place) and you're registered. You get a piece of paper as proof, and that you never need if you sign up for permanent absentee ballots.
And it pretty much only needs to be done once, unless you move to a different state.

We get a ballot send tho our house but of course there are the homeless people, or the ones that move house often who might run in to trouble here.

Basically the way it works here, too, in most places. Oregon, I believe, is the only state that has gone to all mail in ballots. But nearly every state, I think, has that as an option.

But still, if one person is able to vote more than one time, it is the system that does not work.

No system is perfect, and any system can be beaten. People make a big deal about what is a minor item. In theory, the election could swing on a few votes, but that's seldom the case in practice. Besides, the fraud level is probably right there with the honest error level.

The system should make sure somebody with a certain social security number can only vote once right?

In theory, no. The Social Security card is just a slip of heavy paper that any copy shop could duplicate. Further, it is *not* an official identification and it is actually illegal to use it as such, though that is just one of the many unenforced laws.

About my last remark....if these ACORN got 150.000 new voters to register and around 60 % were planning to vote for Obama it seems like hardly being worth the effort 8Assuming that McCain would get the other 40 %.....or is there 35 % Nader voters there as well?

Given the type of people that they're turning up, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them weren't still voting for Regan.

It is this type of thing (ACORN and the like, on both sides) that makes politics compare poorly to an outhouse in August.

--Pete